“That’s what it is. The leaves and trees are out here and they have been out here a couple times to unstop it, but it gets right back stopped-up,” Margo Gainwell said.

Residents were forced to drive across their neighbors’ lawns just to get home. A viewer’s kids were unable to get to a school bus because of the rainstorm Monday morning.

Trash trucks couldn’t drive through the deep water because of the clogged drains.

“They come out and when they come out, they just pull leaves out of the hole, and I guess it’s stopped-up over there,” Gainwell said. “It floods the yard. It comes up in the driveway, and onto my stairs. It goes up on to Cedars and Lebanon sometimes.”

The water on the street Monday was just a fraction of what residents deal with all the time, people said.